A Nice Quiet Day 1901

by James Pitt-Payne, london UK - 27 Mar 2009
2009

I works just like a nigger
and I isn't over strong
and I'm mostly on my trotters
all the time;
So I'm glad when Easter Monday
or a Whitsun comes along,
'cause a day of puffick rest
is really prime.
So I lately took it easy
cause I 'ad a day to spare,
Wiv the wife and kiddies
in their Sunday clothes;
'twas a treat to make my mind up
for a little country air,
and the pleasures
of a quiet day's repose.

There was me and the Missus
and the 'arf a dozen kids,
starting in the morning for the Zoo.
'Twas a precious way, you know,
but we made our minds to go,
and we took the lot to Eppin' Forest too.
Highgate, Barnet, 'Ampstead, Peckham Rye,
at The Crystal Palace made a stay;
We got weary on our pins
and we lost the blooming twins,
but I'm glad we 'ad a nice quiet day.

There was me and the Missus
and the 'arf a dozen kids,
starting in the morning for the Zoo.
'Twas a precious way, you know,
but we made our minds to go,
and we took the lot to Eppin' Forest too.
Highgate, Barnet, 'Ampstead, Peckham Rye,
at The Crystal Palace made a stay;
We got weary on our pins
and we lost the blooming twins,
but I'm glad we 'ad a nice quiet day.

I works just like a nigger
and I isn't over strong
and I'm mostly on my trotters
all the time;
So I'm glad when Easter Monday
or a Whitsun comes along,
'cause a day of puffick rest
is really prime.
So I lately took it easy
cause I 'ad a day to spare,
Wiv the wife and kiddies
in their Sunday clothes;
'twas a treat to make my mind up
for a little country air,
and the pleasures of a quiet day's repose.

There was me and the Missus
and the 'arf a dozen kids,
starting in the morning for the Zoo.
'Twas a precious way, you know,
but we made our minds to go,
and we took the lot to Eppin' Forest too.
Highgate, Barnet, 'Ampstead, Peckham Rye,
at The Crystal Palace made a stay;
We got weary on our pins
and we lost the blooming twins,
but I'm glad we 'ad a nice quiet day.

There was me and the Missus
and the 'arf a dozen kids,
starting in the morning for the Zoo.
'Twas a precious way, you know,
but we made our minds to go,
and we took the lot to Eppin' Forest too.
Highgate, Barnet, 'Ampstead, Peckham Rye,
at The Crystal Palace made a stay;
We got weary on our pins
and we lost the blooming twins,
but I'm glad we 'ad a nice quiet day.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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A Nice Quiet Day 1901
or The Postman's Holiday
Music by Maurice Scott
Lyrics by Eustace Baynes & Edgar Bateman
© MCMI by Francis, Day & Hunter - London
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 27 March 2009 at 13.23
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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